How I Found the Courage to Quit My Job and Move My Family to a Farm
Source: Time By BRENT PRESTON March 20, 2018 Gillian and I started convincing ourselves to buy the farm as soon as we got in the car. Over the years we have become experts […]
In pictures: The Caledonian Forest
Source: BBC News Cairngorms Connect is a new project in Scotland bringing together land-owning NGOs, public bodies and private landowners to work on nature conservation in one of the biggest […]
Taiwan rainbow ‘lasts record-breaking nine hours’
Source: BBC News By Cindy Sui A rainbow may be a wondrous sight but for most people it’s also a fairly fleeting one. But last week, professors and students of […]
New BBC Earth film coming soon to cinemas
Source: BBC News There is so much to see on our planet in just one day. The latest release from BBC Earth Films, Earth: One Amazing Day, follows the lives of […]
Coral reefs can be saved but change is inevitable, scientists say
Source: BBC The world’s coral reefs can be saved by addressing climate change but they will not resemble those of the past, a new study has said. Future reefs will […]
The Home of the Future
Source: Time By Karl Vick / Zephyrhills, Fla. Mar 23, 2017 For feeling good while getting around, it’s pretty hard to beat the mild glide of a golf cart. But the […]
The secret of how diamonds are made by nature
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The tree that shaped human hisory
Source: BBC By Mike Shanahan 17 January 2017 Over 2,000 years ago, an important tree had one of its branches removed on the order of Indian emperor Ashoka the Great. […]
Project aims to grow a ‘city of trees’
Source: BBC By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News A project aims to plant three million trees – one for every man, woman and child – in Greater Manchester over […]
Bears Ears and Gold Butte: Obama creates two nature preserves
Source: BBC President Barack Obama has unilaterally designated two new “national monument” nature preserves in the western US states of Nevada and Utah. The Bears Ears National Monument and the […]
The Lungs of the Earth
Source: Aljazeera Jacopo Ottaviani Photography and design: Isacco Chiaf The world’s forests, along with its oceans, absorb enormous amounts of the carbon dioxide that circulates in the atmosphere. They are, […]
Waterfall with soothing music
Relaxing music with nature sounds of forest and zen waterfall for relaxation, sleeping, meditation music and yoga. Relaxing rainforest music with birds and water sound nature meditation and nature background […]
These deep sea creatures are 10000 years old
Source: BBC By Melissa Hogenboom 1 November 2016 Off the north-east coast of Scotland, 3,300ft (1,000m) under the sea, life is thriving amidst an otherwise drab and muddy ocean […]
The US’ one-million-acre secret
Source: BBC By Zack Frank A bypassed world The Allegheny Forest region, spread across northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York, is one of the most bypassed sections of the eastern […]
Hurricane Matthew kills 26, bears down on Bahamas, US
Source: ET PORT-AU-PRINCE/GUANTANAMO, CUBA: Hurricane Matthew churned toward the Bahamas and Florida’s east coast on Wednesday after killing 26 people in Haiti and prompting the hard-hit country to postpone a long-awaited presidential election. The hurricane, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, whipped Cuba and Haiti with 140 mile-per-hour (230 kph) […]
Cockroaches are not radiation proof and most are not pests
Source: BBC By Henry Nicholls 26 September 2016 Reputation: Yuck. Cockroaches are filthy, immortal scavengers that are unaffected by radiation. In a post-apocalyptic world, it will be these dirty little critters that survive. We would be better off without them. Reality: There are almost 5,000 species of cockroaches, of which […]
What is a flower, anyway?
Source: BBC By Claire Asher 17 September 2016 Flower is one of the earliest words we learn, and a fundamental part of our every day lives. Flowers may be the […]
Coral Reefs Are Dying. Here’s Why You Should Care
Source: Time BY JUSTIN WORLAND Richard Vevers has traveled the globe to photograph coral reefs since quitting his advertising job. In 2011 he cofounded the XL Catlin Seaview Survey, a […]
Meet the man on a mission to save carnivorous plants
Source: BBC By Lucy Jones 15 September 2016 Stewart McPherson is prepared to go a long way for his science: even into the grounds of a prison in the Philippines. “I […]
Nearly 15% of Earth’s Land Is Now Protected — but That’s Not Enough
Source: Time BY Justin Worland Nearly 15% of land on earth is now protected, though some key areas needed to preserve biodiversity have been left out, according to a new […]